AMD Athlon II X4 600e: specs and benchmarks

Summary

AMD started AMD Athlon II X4 600e sales on October 2009 at a recommended price of $130. This is Propus architecture desktop processor primarily aimed at office systems. It has 4 cores and 4 threads, and is based on 45 nm manufacturing technology, with a maximum frequency of 2200 MHz and a locked multiplier.

Compatibility-wise, this is AMD Socket AM3 processor with a TDP of 45 Watt and a maximum temperature of °C. It supports DDR3 memory.

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General info

Of Athlon II X4 600e processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.

Place in performance rating	1762
Value for money (0-100)	6.15
Market segment	Desktop processor
Architecture codename	Propus
Release date	October 2009 (12 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$130	of 305 (Core i7-870)
Price now	$18.62 (0.1x MSRP)	of 16595 (Xeon E7-4850)

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Technical specs

Basic microprocessor parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters can generally indicate CPU performance, but to be more precise you have to review its test results.

Physical cores	4 (Quad-Core)
Threads	4
Boost clock speed	2.2 GHz	of 5.3 (Core i9-10900KF)
L1 cache	128 KB (per core)	of 896 (Atom C3950)
L2 cache	512 KB (per core)	of 12288 (Core 2 Quad Q9550)
Chip lithography	45 nm	of 5 (Apple M1)
Die size	169 mm2
Number of transistors	300 million	of 16000 (Apple M1)
64 bit support	+

Compatibility

Information on Athlon II X4 600e compatibility with other computer components and devices: motherboard (look for socket type), power supply unit (look for power consumption) etc. Useful when planning a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. Note that power consumption of some processors can well exceed their nominal TDP, even without overclocking. Some can even double their declared thermals given that the motherboard allows to tune the CPU power parameters.

Number of CPUs in a configuration	1	of 8 (Opteron 842)
Socket	AM3
Thermal design power (TDP)	45 Watt	of 400 (Xeon Platinum 9282)

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel number of RAM supported by Athlon II X4 600e's memory controller. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequency may be supported.

Supported memory types

DDR3

of 4266 (Ryzen 9 4900H)

Benchmark performance

Single-core and multi-core benchmark results of Athlon II X4 600e. Overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.

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Overall score

This is our combined benchmark performance rating. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

Game benchmarks

Let's see how good Athlon II X4 600e is for a gaming PC, compared with system requirements of some popular titles. Remember that sometimes official hardware requirements may reflect real performance inaccurately.

Relative perfomance

Overall Athlon II X4 600e performance compared to nearest competitors among desktop CPUs.

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